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As he was warming up and doing his mobility yesterday Nate Green, who is now authoring and editing a book for fitness professionals with Precision Nutrition, told me of a conversation he had with another of PN’s coaches regarding how we can better help people who get stuck in the process of trying various trends only to fail and start over. At the root of this issue is the reality that we the public are bombarded with marketing claims for ...
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“Musculoskeletal pain is a lifestyle issue.” – leading physical therapist Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
There are many ways to interpret that statement, and many lessons can be drawn from it. Of all the people that come to EFL I estimate that 90% come because they are experiencing some sort of pain or discomfort that negatively affects their life. The other 10% have body composition or performance related goals but tend to also have some movement-related limitations be it chronically tight upper back ...
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A couple of months ago Nate Green and I met up for beers up the street from EFL, and over some delicious Hopworks organic ale he told me about a book he was working on that had him glued to his laptop for the better part of every day. No wonder he was looking a little paler than one would expect in summer, even in Portland. The premise of his book, “Bigger Smaller Bigger” is a self experiment on ...
Continue Reading →It’s that time of a year when even in a gym as non-mainstream as mine more people are inquiring about how to lose some pounds and reduce the stress of sitting in front of a computer for 12+ hours a day. (Quit your job and move to Indonesia and surf?) The more people I train, the more years of training experience I have under my belt, the more quality information I read, and the more workshops with the best minds ...
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